Standards 2012 Sec-2

A consortium of professional organizations dedicated to improving survival and quality of life for cancer patients through standard-setting, prevention, research, education, and the monitoring of comprehensive quality care.

Name the two (2) new standards which focus on:

1. Patient-centered care

2. Quality and outcomes

Eligibility Requirements

Required of all programs annually

Displayed in CoC Hospital Locator

Describes structure of program

* Diagnostic & treatment services

* Psyco-social and other support services

Standards 1.1 - 1.12

Program Management

Standards 2.1 - 2.4

Clinical Services

Standards 3.1 - 3.3

Continuum of Care Services

Standards 4.1 - 4.8

Patient Outcome

Standards 5.1 - 5.7

Data Quality

Eligibility Requirements Created

Required of all programs annually

Displayed in CoC Hospital Locator

Describes structure of program

*Diagnostic and treatment services

*Psycho-social and other support services

S1.1 Physician Credentials

– Physicians who provide cancer care to patients are board certified or in the process of becoming board certified

S1.2 Cancer Committee Membership

The Coordinators are:

– The cancer committee is multidisciplinary with physicians and non-physicians members

The Coordinators are:

1. Cancer Conference

2. Quality Improvement

3. Cancer Registry Quality

4. Community Outreach

5. Clinical Research Representative

6. Psych-social Services

S1.3 Cancer Committee Attendance*

– Each required member (physician and non-physician) attends at least 50% of the cancer committee meetings held annually

* Eligible for Commendation

S1.4 Cancer Committee Meetings

– The cancer committee meets each quarter, for a minimum of 4 times each year

S1.5 Cancer Program Goals

– At least 1 clinical goal and 1 programmatic goal are established each year, goals are monitored, evaluated, and documented in cancer committee minutes at least twice annually

Pop Quiz • A patient was diagnosed with colon cancer at another facility on 1/1/12. They came to your facility and had surgery on 2/12/12. When must this case be completed in order to meet the abstracting timeliness requirement? a. 6/1/12 b. 7/1/12 c. 8/1/12 d. 1/1/13

Answer:

c. 8/1/12

Population-based registry vs. Hospital based registry

Population-based serves a Widerrange

Hospital-based registry Only serves that hospital and do NOTreflect the community.

Standard Setters for the Cancer Registry

Population-based:Hospital-based:

Population-based

:

SEER

NCI

Hospital-based:

ACoS

CoC

Reportable List

The governing document for casefinding in the registry. Includes all diagnoses that are to be reported and clarify the types of diagnoses that are non-reportable.

Population-based Central Cancer Registry
Casefinding

Casefinding is a system for locating every patient-inpatient or outpatient

- who is diagnosed and/or treated with a reportable diagnosis. Casefinding is like casting a net far and wide to "capture" all of the reportable cancer cases.

Pop Quiz• What includes the codes and definitions fordata items that are part of a registry’s dataset?a. Cancer registryb. Data dictionaryc. Legislationd. National standards

Answer:

b. Data dictionary

Pop Quiz• What type of study may be performed whenpeople report that several family members,friends, neighbors, or coworkers have beendiagnosed with the same or related cancer?
a. Cancer cluster study
b. Case control study
c. Patterns of care surveillance
d. Survival surveillance

Answer:

a. Cancer cluster study

All case abstractors in facilities that submitted cancer data to the state central registry were required to abstract the same 5 cancer cases as part of a reliability study. This is a way to evaluate what aspect of data quality?

a. Accuracyb. Completenessc. Consistencyd. Timeliness

Answer:

c. Consistency

Population-based central cancer registries collect follow-up information so that what can be calculated and analyzed for the catchment area?

A 10 percent sample of abstracts from Hospital A’s last data submission to the central registry was selected and specified data items were recoded by quality control staff using the text provided on the abstract. What type of quality control procedure is this?